The first time I voted Reagan won.

I typed my thesis on an IBM.

That reedy voice, the cowboy

belt & colon polyps seem semi-

sweet now, an almost-funny joke

about the Gipper’s typewriter

that had no memory or colon,

a punctuation mark that draws attention

to a list of fruits I’m not allowed

to eat before my procedure;

the semicolon promises

there’s more; after I swallow

this gallon of magnesium 

citrate, half will be well.